You don't need a startup idea. You need the ambition to build one.
Have you always wanted to become an entrepreneur and build a technology company, but something has been holding you back?
Maybe you have an idea but don't know how to build the technology. Maybe you've identified an industry or problem you want to pursue but haven't figured out the right business model. Or maybe you simply know you want to become an entrepreneur but haven't found the right idea yet.
That's exactly what the Audax Founder Program is designed for.
The Audax Founder Program is a selective venture-building program for aspiring entrepreneurs who want to build a software, AI or technology-enabled company with the resources and support of an experienced technology team behind them.
You bring the ambition, commitment and willingness to build. We'll help with the rest.
Starting Without an Idea? That's Okay.
For selected founders who haven't identified their business idea yet, we'll work together to explore potential opportunities based on your experience, interests, network and areas of expertise. We'll look for real problems worth solving, evaluate potential markets, explore business models and help identify opportunities that could become viable technology companies.
The objective isn't simply to brainstorm startup ideas. It's to find a problem worth solving that you are uniquely positioned and motivated to pursue.
Already Have an Idea? Even Better.
We'll help challenge it, validate the opportunity, define the business model and determine what actually needs to be built before investing significant time or money into development. If the opportunity makes sense, we'll work alongside you to turn it into a real product and company.
What We Build Together
Depending on where you're starting, Audax can support you through:
- Founder and opportunity discovery
- Startup idea generation and evaluation
- Market and customer validation
- Business model development
- Business planning and financial modelling
- Technology strategy and product roadmapping
- UX/UI and product design
- MVP scoping and software development
- AI strategy and implementation where applicable
- Go-to-market and launch strategy
- Early customer acquisition
- Preparing for investment and future growth
Most importantly, we don't hand you a playbook and send you away to build it yourself. Under this program, Audax will actually build your MVP and help you launch the product in the market.
Who We're Looking For
We're looking for people who genuinely want to become entrepreneurs.
You may be:
- A business professional who's always wanted to start something
- An industry expert who sees problems technology could solve
- A salesperson or operator who understands customers but doesn't know how to code
- Someone with a startup idea but no technical co-founder
- An aspiring entrepreneur still searching for the right opportunity
You don't need to know how to code. You don't need to have founded a company before. You don't even need to have the idea yet.
What matters is that you're ambitious, commercially minded, willing to learn and prepared to put real effort into building a company.
This Isn't a Job
The Audax Founder Program is not an employment opportunity.
You aren't applying to work for Audax.
You're applying for the opportunity to build a company of your own with Audax helping you get there.
Founders accepted into the program will be expected to make a modest financial investment toward building and launching their venture. Audax contributes its technology, software development, AI, product and business-building capabilities alongside that investment.
The exact structure and scope of each venture will depend on the founder, opportunity and technology required.
Why Build With Audax?
Starting a technology company can be difficult when you aren't technical.
Finding a technical co-founder is hard. Hiring an entire development team is expensive. Raising investment before you've built anything can be even harder.
We want to create another path.
Audax gives selected founders access to the capabilities normally required to take a technology company from an idea on a whiteboard to a product in the hands of customers.
You become the founder. Audax becomes the team helping you build it.
We're Selecting a Small Number of Founders
This program is intentionally selective.
We're looking for people with the drive and potential to build meaningful companies, whether they already have the idea or need help discovering it.
Acceptance isn't based on having the perfect pitch deck or startup résumé.
We're looking at the person behind the application.
If you've always thought "I'd love to start a company someday", this may be the opportunity to stop waiting for someday.
Apply to the Audax Founder Program and tell us why you want to become an entrepreneur.